February 25, 2013

The Vogue editor who became a pipe-smoking Congresswoman

It was on this day (February 25) in 1910 that the colorful Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick (R-NJ) was born. Today Fenwick is “best-remembered as the pipe-smoking grandmother in Congress and as the model for Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury character Lacey Davenport,” notes Amy Schapiro, author of the biography “Millicent Fenwick: Her Way.” But earlier in her career, Fenwick was a magazine editor, serving as an associate editor of Vogue. She also wrote “Vogue’s Book of Etiquette” (1948).